Principles of design
The equal distribution of elements throughout a composition.
What is balance?
Means "wedge-shaped"
What is cuneiform?
A technique for painting murals that uses water-based paint applied to wet plaster.
What is fresco?
Type of building, with a main, central area.
What is central-plan?
Writers and artists in the Renaissance came to believe in_____.
What is humanism?
A comparison of the sizes, shapes, and numbers of elements in a composition.
What is proportion?
Triangular on one end and pointed on the other. (tool)
What is stylus?
Minoan art showed people facing how?
What is profile?
Destruction of religious icons.
What is iconoclasm?
Renaissance means what?
What is re-birth?
The focal point of a work, or the part that the eye is usually drawn to first.
What is emphasis?
Creatures with the head of a man and the body of a bull or lion.
What is lamassus?
Means "pushed;" the artist hammered the back of a thin sheet of gold to "push out" the sculptured face.
What is repoussé?
A Muslim place of worship.
What is Mosque?
Works that focus on depictions of natural scenery, were new to the western world.
What is landscape?
Repeating visual elements, such as lines, colors, shapes, or textures.
What is repetition?
Rather than building pyramids, many rulers and nobles had_____.
What is rock-cut tombs?
Involves heating the piece to high temperatures in a special oven called a kiln.
What is firing?
A niche in a wall that marks the direction of Mecca.
What is mihrab?
School of Athens was painted by who?
What is Raphael?
Component or components of an artwork the give the sensation of action.
The Middle Kingdom ended when Egypt was invaded by people called the______.
What is Hyksos?
Idealized form towards depictions intended to elicit specific emotional responses from the viewer.
What is expressionism?
Also known as calfskin.
What is vellum?
Creation of Adam was painted using which technique?
What is fresco?